My wife had a miscarriage about 2 years ago and this was a game changer for us. We read this book together when we lost our unborn son. With stopping points along the way because it was just that painful, we managed to get through this excellent book on mourning. When you do it the right way (and everyone mourns differently) you really change as a person, you really start to love, start to laugh and start to have hope again. If you have a child that has passed on or a miscarriage like us, I promise its going to be hard, but I also promise its going to get better and this book can do it for you.

If you think someone can only mourn over someone who has been in their life a long time, think again. To lose a child in miscarriage, still birth, etc. is just as painful and traumatic as any loss. Claudia, the author of Mourning the Dreams: How Parents Create Meaning from Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Early Infant Death, will give you a glance into the sorrow some bear from child loss. The manner in which it is written reveals to you that she wrote this book from the heart and put her all into it listening to the stories of others and giving ideas to find a little comfort. I have never seen someone explain perinatal loss as well as she has, in addition to other parts of her book. When dealing with a loss of a child, just with any loss, there exists a rollercoaster of emotions. Claudia, discusses the emotions very well and anyone who has dealt with such a loss is able to relate to most of the scenarios. The book is informative, well researched, quite accurate and an excellent healing tool. The book was written with both partners in mind which is very unique as the fathers often tend to be left out of books written for this purpose and they,too have sorrow. Great book!

Claudia is an author with a heart, wisdom, empathy, and understanding. When she
wrote this book, she must have spent innumerable hours interviewing not just parents
who have lost children through untimely death, but counselors of psycology, medical
professionals, pastors, community services and several other aspects.

My family and I walked through the death of a child, and survived with hearts that
love life, and help others. 12 years ago, I didn't have this book, but I know it
would have made our walk a little easier by reading the personal stories that Claudia
includes. Sometimes, getting through one day is all that a grieving parent can do, but
it gives hope and renewed strength when a broken person knows that there are others
out there who have walked in those same shoes.

Pick up this book for your personal library, or for anyone you know who is walking in
grief....